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Danh ngôn của Khalil Gibran (Sứ mệnh: 5)

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Love is trembling happiness.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.